The nameless terrors in their home life counterpoints the irrepressible optimism that is native to childhood and that, Shea implies, can see children safely through the grimmest of circumstances, such as the searing climax of this quiet, expertly told novel. The hardcover publication of Hulabrought author Lisa Shea a Whiting Writers Award, put her in the company of other Whiting winners such as Tobias Wolff, Alice McDermoft, and Mona Simpson, and made her book a 1 regional best-seller. Convincingly portraying the budding sexuality of early adolescence in sometimes shocking situations, Shea re-creates the numinous landscape of childhood in which animals and vegetation possess immanent intelligence and personality. The hardcover publication of Hula brought author Lisa Shea a Whiting Writers Award, put her in the company of other Whiting winners such as Tobias Wolff. The girls are forced back upon their inner resources and each other for a sense of security. Their mother is whimsical and distant the marriage is disintegrating.

Their father, whose mind has been ravaged by war, is given to drunken gunplay and sudden explosions of rage. 1 She was the recipient of a 1993 Whiting Award. Lisa Shea Hula: A Novel Paperback Jby Lisa Shea (Author) 18 ratings 3.5 on Goodreads 394 ratings See all formats and editions Hardcover 7.39 16 Used from 2.64 2 New from 9.99 8 Collectible from 18.00 Paperback 18.00 17 Used from 1.18 13 New from 13. The hardcover publication of Hula brought author Lisa Shea a Whiting Writers. Lisa Shea is an American novelist and the author of books published by W.W. Set in the early 1960s, nearly all the action takes place in the backyard of the girls' suburban Virginia home, to them a surreal, adventurous place in which they act out their wishes, hopes and dreams, and try to cope-often ritualistically-with family dysfunction. Lisa Sheas award-winning first novel immediately established her as an. Born Februin Williamsport, she was a daughter of Charles and Linda (Hoffman) Hess of Cogan Station. The lives of two sisters at the crossroads between childhood and adolescence are described in lyrical, hypnotic prose. Lepley, 55, of Williamsport died unexpectedly Wednesday, April 26, 2023. In her remarkable first novel, Shea hauntingly evokes the spirits and sensations of childhood.

Hula by Lisa Shea